With a private or shared car, with taxis, NCCs, buses and trains but also with ships and planes without forgetting bicycles and other small private means of transport, every day in Sardinia 67.7% of the resident population, more than 1 million people, for work, study or other reasons, leave their homes making approximately 2,565,996 daily trips (2.4 per person), with an average distance per capita traveled of 68.13 kilometers, numbers up 4% compared to 2023, the year in which 2,464,139 were recorded.
These are the data on the "mobile population" that emerge from the analysis carried out by the Research Office of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, on data from the fourth quarter of 2024 provided by the Observatory on the trends in the mobility of passengers and goods of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Furthermore, according to the national surveys of ISFORT, the Institute of Training and Research for Transport in Rome, 32% of citizens travel between home and work, 32% for other activities, 29% for leisure and 6% for study. The car is the most used means of transport (used by 63.1% of the population), followed by walking (21% of citizens) and local public transport (8%, Bus, NCC and Taxi).
Only 3.1% of the population uses intermodality as a form of transportation. This too, in addition to local public transportation, the need to reduce emissions into the atmosphere and the role of intermodality, in the national event organized yesterday, at the Cagliari airport, by Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, entitled "Intermodal systems and sustainability. The role of large regional transport systems and the value of artisan businesses in territorial mobility", as part of the CI.TE.MOS initiative.
The initiative, which was opened by the greetings of the National President of Confartigianato, Marco Granelli with a video intervention, and by the President of Confartigianato Sardegna, Giacomo Meloni, saw the introduction and moderation of Gianfranco Fancello of the University of Cagliari.
The first round table, entitled “The role of institutions in supporting intermodality”, was attended by Salvatore Sasso Deidda, President of the Transport Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Monica Pilloni, President of Sogaer, Massimo Deiana, President of the Port System Authority of the Sardinian Sea, and Francesco Sechi, Chief of Staff of the Department of Transport of the Sardinia Region. The second meeting, “Connections between institutions, businesses and operators, comparing experiences”, was attended by Fabio Mereu, CEO of Sogaer and National Vice President of Confartigianato, Mauro Coni, University of Cagliari, Carlo Poledrini, General Director of ARST, Luca Catella, National Vice President of Confartigianato AutoBus Operator, Alessandro Nordio, former National President of Confartigianato Taxi, Valerio Spada, Playcar, and Ernesto Cipriani, University of Roma Tre.
